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    Commentary: Those overtime protections Obama tried to give workers? Not so fast, Trump says

    by Scott Martelle, Los Angeles Times Mar 08, 2019 2 minutes

    The Labor Department on Thursday proposed a new standard for determining which wage earners are exempt from overtime protections, effectively freezing out 3 million workers the Obama administration sought to protect.

    Score this one: Employers 1, Workers 0.

    It's a complicated bit of regulatory action. The 1938 Fair Labor and Standards Act,

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